icky

The word “icky” has 2 syllables: i-cky

It's pronounced as /ˈɪki/


What is synonym and antonym for icky?

In the thesaurus, “icky” has 75 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for icky along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for icky

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • aggravating
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • awful
  • bad
  • beastly
  • bilious
  • bitter
  • crappy
  • cruddy
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • displeasing
  • distasteful
  • dreadful
  • foul
  • galling
  • ghastly
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • gross
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • invidious
  • irritating
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • noisome
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • offensive
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rotten
  • scandalous
  • seamy
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sour
  • sucky
  • ugly
  • uncongenial
  • unholy
  • unlovely
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unsavory
  • unwelcome
  • vexing
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wicked
  • wretched
  • yucky
  • yukky

Antonyms for icky

  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • charming
  • cheery
  • congenial
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • dreamy
  • felicitous
  • friendly
  • good
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • jolly
  • kindly
  • nice
  • palatable
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • satisfying
  • sweet
  • welcome

Meanings of icky

  • adjective
    1. Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
    2. Excessively sentimental.
    3. Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

Example Sentences

  • The murky water in the pond felt icky between my toes.
  • After the rain, the ground became muddy and icky to walk on.
  • The strange smell in the old basement was quite icky.
  • His hands were covered in a sticky and icky substance after working on the car.
  • The thought of eating the overcooked vegetables left an icky feeling in my stomach.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to icky, such as: abhorrent, abominable, aggravating, agreeable, amiable, annoying, appalling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • absolute
  • actual
  • authentic
  • authoritative
  • bang on
  • bona fide
  • careful
  • certain
  • close
  • conclusive
  • concrete
  • conscientious
  • correct
  • dead-on
  • defined
  • definite
  • definitive
  • deft
  • delicate
  • detailed
  • discriminating
  • discriminative
  • distinct
  • errorless
  • exact
  • explicit
  • factual
  • faithful
  • fastidious
  • faultless
  • final
  • fine
  • finical
  • finicky
  • flawless
  • genuine
  • good
  • hairline
  • impeccable
  • inerrant
  • infallible
  • irrefutable
  • judicious
  • just
  • legitimate
  • letter-perfect
  • lifelike
  • literal
  • logical
  • mathematical
  • matter-of-fact
  • methodical
  • meticulous
  • nice
  • official
  • on target
  • on the button
  • on the money
  • on the nose
  • on-target
  • particular
  • perfect
  • pinpoint
  • precise
  • proper
  • punctilious
  • punctual
  • real
  • realistic
  • refined
  • regular
  • right
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • scientific
  • scrupulous
  • severe
  • sharp
  • skillful
  • so
  • solid
  • sound
  • specific
  • spot-on
  • straight
  • strict
  • stringent
  • subtle
  • systematic
  • true
  • truthful
  • ultraprecise
  • undeniable
  • undisputed
  • unerring
  • unimpeachable
  • unmistakable
  • unquestionable
  • unrefuted
  • valid
  • veracious
  • veridical

backbreaking

  • Augean
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • bothersome
  • bruising
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • challenging
  • complex
  • complicated
  • cruel
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • distressing
  • effortful
  • elusive
  • exacting
  • exhausting
  • formidable
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • hairy
  • hard
  • heavy
  • hellacious
  • herculean
  • inhuman
  • insoluble
  • intricate
  • involved
  • irksome
  • killer
  • knotty
  • labored
  • laborious
  • moiling
  • murderous
  • onerous
  • opaque
  • oppressive
  • painful
  • pick-and-shovel
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • punishing
  • recondite
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • rugged
  • serious
  • severe
  • spiny
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • stressful
  • strict
  • stringent
  • stubborn
  • sweaty
  • tall
  • taxing
  • testing
  • thorny
  • ticklish
  • tight
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • trying
  • uphill
  • vexatious
  • wearisome

backstabbing

  • abandonment
  • abuse
  • artful
  • aspersion
  • backbiting
  • beguiling
  • belittlement
  • betrayal
  • betraying
  • black eye
  • blame
  • business
  • calumniation
  • calumny
  • cattiness
  • censure
  • character assassination
  • cheap shot
  • condemnation
  • contempt
  • contumely
  • crafty
  • crime
  • crossing
  • cunning
  • damage
  • debasement
  • deceit
  • deceiving
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defamation
  • degradation
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • derision
  • derogation
  • desertion
  • detraction
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disgrace
  • dishonest
  • dishonor
  • disloyalty
  • disparagement
  • disrepute
  • double cross
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • dump
  • duplicity
  • dynamite
  • eavesdropping
  • faithlessness
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • foxy
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • giving away
  • going back on
  • gossip
  • guile
  • guileful
  • harm
  • hearsay
  • hit
  • hurt
  • hypocritical
  • idle rumor
  • ignominy
  • impairment
  • infamy
  • infidelity
  • informing
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insincere
  • insinuation
  • invective
  • knavish
  • knock
  • lessening
  • libel
  • libeling
  • lie
  • low-down dirty
  • lying
  • malice
  • maligning
  • minimization
  • misleading
  • misrepresentation
  • muckraking
  • mud
  • mud-slinging
  • obloquy
  • opprobrium
  • peaching
  • pejorative
  • perfidy
  • prejudice
  • rap
  • reproach
  • revilement
  • ridicule
  • rumor
  • running down
  • scam
  • scandal
  • scandalmongering
  • scorcher
  • scorn
  • scurrility
  • selling down the river
  • sellout
  • shame
  • shifty
  • shopping
  • sin
  • skeleton in closet
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap in face
  • slime
  • slur
  • sly
  • smear
  • smear campaign
  • sneaky
  • snitching
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • stabbing in the back
  • swindle
  • tale
  • talebearing
  • talk
  • traducement
  • traducing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • tricky
  • turning in
  • turpitude
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • underestimation
  • underhanded
  • unfaithfulness
  • untruthful
  • vilification
  • vituperation
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • grim
  • gross
  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

cagey

  • Machiavellian
  • ambivalent
  • artful
  • astute
  • averse
  • backhanded
  • beguiling
  • calculating
  • careful
  • circuitous
  • circular
  • circumspect
  • clandestine
  • concealed
  • conflicted
  • covert
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • cute
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • designing
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • disinclined
  • dodgy
  • double-dealing
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • facile
  • fainthearted
  • faltering
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • furtive
  • glib
  • guileful
  • halting
  • hesitant
  • hugger-mugger
  • hypocritical
  • indecisive
  • indisposed
  • infirm
  • insincere
  • insinuating
  • irresolute
  • knavish
  • leery
  • left-handed
  • loath
  • loathe
  • loth
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • oblique
  • plotting
  • questioning
  • reluctant
  • reticent
  • roundabout
  • scheming
  • secret
  • secretive
  • serpentine
  • shady
  • sharp
  • shifty
  • shrewd
  • shy
  • skeptical
  • slick
  • slippery
  • sly
  • smooth-tongued
  • sneaky
  • stealthy
  • subtle
  • surreptitious
  • timid
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • two-faced
  • uncertain
  • undecided
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • uneager
  • unenthusiastic
  • unscrupulous
  • unsure
  • unwilling
  • vacillating
  • wabbly
  • wary
  • wily
  • wobbly

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